As a parent, you’re treated to hours and hours (and hours) of animated flicks of varying degrees of skill. Some CGI is so hideously cheap in appearance that it’s almost excruciating to watch. You want to hide your tot’s e...

Hunter S. Thompson, in this new documentary by Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, is a man imprisoned by his own persona. After the success of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the expectations that accompanied the “gonzo&...

What We Do Is Secret may cause you to think, “I wonder if heroin will kill the germs on my kitchen counter as effectively as it killed Darby Crash?” That it the singer of the Germs is compelling—just as overdo...

There comes a point in your teen years when most can’t help but feel hopelessly alone and different. That point when you’re not a kid anymore, but you’re not an adult and people treat you—to varying degr...

Horror movie makers rarely get it right for the duration of their pictures. How often have you sat through the first 30 minutes of a film, palms sweating, heart pounding, only to be disappointed by some ridiculous resolution th...

Rest assured, the special features on the two-disc edition of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull are of the variety that make you wish you could have been a part of the making of the movie. This…

Catching the Drift How having cars on the edge of control has become an American phenomenon
Idiosyncratic Theorizing The Claremont Museum of Art’s new Multiverse has some imagination
Don Rickles at San Manuel Bingo and C...

One thing you’ll learn watching the special features for The Happening is that M. Night Shyamalan wanted to make “the best B-Movie ever,” which goes a long way to explaining the laughably horrendous dialogue i...

To transform into Mark David Chapman, the infamous killer of John Lennon, for Chapter 27 Jared Leto gained a whopping 67 pounds. Was he upset that Christian Bale had beaten his paltry 28 pound Requiem for a Dream weight loss&he...

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Torchwood, the Doctor Who spin-off from Russell T. Davies (the British answer to Joss Whedon), is ridiculous, illogical and thoroughly fun. Set in modern day Cardiff, where a Rift in the space-time continuum allows all sorts of...

The night after I watched Deception (starring Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor) I dreamed that it was really a remake of a 1930s screwball comedy and it had modernized the earlier film’s secretarial pool into a sex club. Ir...

The term “cult classic” was born in college dorms, when kids clamp onto a film over time because it’s smart, infectiously colloquial and refreshingly unorthodox. Religious mimicry is the first sign of a cult c...

Shot Glass Politics What Norman Mailer and Hunter Thompson tell us about campaign 2008
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The Melvins Double Up for Nude With Boots And Agent Orange&r...

As a movie, Married Life seems to operate under the “if you collect enough good actors, you’ll have a great film” line of thinking, but unfortunately, the sum of its goodness doesn’t quite add up to grea...

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Portugal. The Man:
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Art, in any form, is meant to inspire an emotional response, and film is a medium that has the most tools at its disposal to achieve that. Between music, images and the natural tendency to be empathetic to the emotional…

There is a tendency to want to swallow documentaries whole as “truth” just as we read non-fiction books that way, or watch news reports on TV. But the real “truth” is that all of those things are merely ...

Paying homage to your influences is a time-honored tradition in art, but Doomsday, from writer/director Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent), although surely intended as homage, reads more like a montage cribbing the best ...

Make no bones about it, The X-Files: Revelations is a shameless marketing tool. The new two-disc set contains eight episodes (spanning six seasons of the TV series) deemed “essential” by creator Chris Carter and lon...

Based on the Russian-nesting-doll progression of Seth Rogen in Knocked Up, Jonah Hill in Superbad and Troy Gentile in Drillbit Taylor, it wouldn’t seem out of left field to expect the next entry in Apatowmania to be Look ...